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Also known as Max Ferdinand Scheler

German philosopher (1874-1928)

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Max Scheler was a German philosopher who lived from 1874 to 1928 and made important contributions to understanding human emotions, values, and our relationships with others. His work matters because it shaped how philosophers think about the role of feelings and personal experience in ethical life, rather than treating morality as purely abstract reasoning.

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Born
1874
Died
1928
Works
138

Top works

  • El saber y la culture
  • Esencia y formas de la simpatía
  • Ausgleich als Aufgabe und Schicksal
  • 宇宙における人間の地位
  • Mort et survie

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  • Ressentiment must therefore be strongest in a society like ours, where approximately equal rights (political and otherwise) or formal social equality, publicly recognized, go hand in hand with wide factual differences in power, property, and education.
  • It is peculiar to “ressentiment criticism” that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.
  • The ultimate goal of the arriviste’s aspirations is not to acquire a thing of value, but to be more highly esteemed than others. He merely uses the “thing” as an indifferent occasion for overcoming the oppressive feeling of inferiority which results from his constant comparisons.
  • If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old age with regard to the values of youth—then we have already started the movement of devaluation which will end with the defamation of the world and all its values. Only a timely act of resignation can deliver us from this tendency toward self-delusion.
  • To a lesser degree, a secret ressentiment underlies every way of thinking which attributes creative power to mere negation and criticism. Thus modern philosophy is deeply penetrated by a whole type of thinking which is nourished by ressentiment. I am referring to the view that the “true” and the “given” is not that which is self-evident, but rather that which is “indubitable” or “incontestable,” which can be maintained against doubt and criticism.
  • All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

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1874-08-22
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1928-05-19
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Max Ferdinand Scheler ( German: [ˈʃeːlɐ]; 22 August 1874 – 19 May 1928) was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology. Considered in his lifetime one of the most prominent German philosophers, Scheler developed the philosophical method of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology.

After Scheler's death in 1928, Martin Heidegger affirmed, with Ortega y Gasset, that all philosophers of the century were indebted to Scheler and praised him as "the strongest philosophical force in modern Germany, nay, in contemporary Europe and in contemporary philosophy as such."

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